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A Japanese diplomat was recovering in hospital yesterday after being stabbed five times during an apparent kidnapping attempt in Sanaa.

The unnamed consul was attacked when the two-vehicle convoy in which he was travelling through Hadda, the diplomatic quarter of the city, was stopped.

The stabbing is the latest in a wave of violence in the Yemeni capital directed at foreign nationals. Two Belarusian defence contractors were shot dead outside their hotel last month and an armed German Embassy employee was shot dead outside a supermarket in the Hadda district in October. At least ten foreign nationals are being held